- Bill Gates and his allies are pushing insect protein as an alternative food source, raising concerns over traditional food systems.
- The Gates Foundation’s All Things Bugs initiative, supported by DARPA, is now using CRISPR/Cas9 to create genetically modified insects, with potential long-term safety and ethical questions.
- The U.S. military is being used as a testing ground for these experimental foods, with the ultimate goal of normalizing insect consumption among the broader population.
- Critics argue that labeling and transparency are lacking, and insect-based foods are being allowed into the market without rigorous safety testing.
- The global push for alternative proteins like insect and lab-grown meat may be more about control over the food supply than sustainability or environmental benefits.
(Natural News)—In a world where the global elite increasingly dictate what people eat, the latest move by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to introduce insect protein into the food supply is raising alarm bells.
What began as a seemingly noble effort to combat malnutrition in famine-stricken regions has morphed into a full-scale assault on traditional food systems, with the U.S. military serving as the testing ground for this insidious agenda. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s (BMGF) 2012 funding of the All Things Bugs initiative marked the beginning of this troubling trend.
More than 10 years on, the initiative has since expanded into the realm of genetically modified insects. With support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), All Things Bugs is now using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to create insects as a “new bioresource.” This raises serious questions about the long-term safety and ethics of such experiments.
The involvement of the U.S. military in this agenda is particularly concerning. DARPA, a research arm of the Department of Defense (DoD), is a key partner in the development of genetically modified insects. This suggests that the military is being used as a testing ground for these experimental foods, with the ultimate goal of normalizing insect consumption among the broader population.
The BMGF’s investments in alternative proteins extend beyond insects. In 2022, it awarded $4.76 million to Nature’s Fynd, a startup developing fungi-based proteins. The foundation has also invested in Savor, a company producing butter from air and water. While these ventures are marketed as steps toward a more “sustainable food system,” critics argue that they are part of a broader agenda to control the global food supply and reduce traditional meat consumption.
Crickets and grasshoppers are already making their way into the American diet in the form of protein bars, shakes and even restaurant menus. They are also being promoted as sustainable options for pet food and animal feed. Yet, labeling and transparency are conspicuously absent from this push.
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed insect-based foods to bypass rigorous safety testing by classifying them as “Generally Regarded As Safe.” This regulatory loophole enables manufacturers to flood the market with untested products, leaving consumers in the dark about potential health risks.
Door to Freedom Founder Dr. Meryl Nass has been vocal about the lack of oversight. She told the Defender: “How long will it take before we learn whether these foods are safe? It could take generations.”
GMWatch Managing Editor Claire Robinson also emphasized the need for caution, calling for insect proteins to be “subjected to a pre-marketing risk assessment for health and the environment.” She continued: “This includes testing them for the presence of pathogens, possible allergens, and substances that may be toxic to humans. Then they must be clearly labeled for the consumer.”
Defense Department promoting “alternative proteins”
Meanwhile, the U.S. government is actively supporting this movement through initiatives like the National Science Foundation’s Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming (CEIF), which focuses on using insects as feed for livestock, poultry, and aquaculture. But the DoD’s involvement in so-called “alternative proteins” does not end with Gates.
Last June, the Washington Free Beacon reported that a company bankrolled by the Defense Department is seeking proposals to develop lab-grown meat for military rations. BioMADE, a public-private company funded by the DoD, argues that the use of lab-grown proteins will reduce the department’s carbon footprint.
Critics begged to differ, arguing that U.S. troops should not be used as test subjects for experimental food products. “Our soldiers should never be used as guinea pigs,” said Jack Hubbard, executive director of the Center for the Environment and Welfare.
The push for alternative proteins is often justified as a response to climate change, but recent studies suggest that lab-grown meat may have a higher carbon footprint than traditional beef. According to a University of California, Davis study, lab-grown meat manufactured using “the ‘pharma’ approach” is “going to be worse for the environment and more expensive than conventional beef production.”
The globalist agenda to replace traditional food sources with insects and lab-grown alternatives is not just about sustainability – it’s about control. Gates and his fellow globalists are playing a dangerous game with the food supply. By normalizing the consumption of genetically modified insects and experimental proteins, the elite are reshaping the food supply without the consent or understanding of the public.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.